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The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino, right, poses with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, his wife Chirlane McCray and their children Dante and Chiara at the balcony of Rome’s city hall before their meeting on July 20, 2014.

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The de Blasio family is taking a nine-day jaunt to the Southwestern and Western U.S., City Hall said Monday afternoon.

The New York City Mayor and his family is leaving town Tuesday. City Hall didn’t specify which states they would visit or whether the family would travel by plane or car. Read More »

Rainbow flags are placed on New York City Hall following the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.

Josh Dawsey/The Wall Street Journal

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other area politicians took to social media to cheer the Supreme Court’s decision that gay marriage is a constitutional right. The ruling struck down restrictions on same-sex marriage in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that a Cincinnati-based federal appeals court upheld last year. Read More »

New York County District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., center, and New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton, left, are reflected in a television screen as they hold a news conference announcing indictments of two major drug-trafficking rings in Upper Manhattan’s Washington Heights on Thursday.

Peter Foley for The Wall Street Journal

Authorities broke up two separate drug-trafficking organizations in Upper Manhattan, indicting 35 people on drug charges, officials said on Thursday.

The year-and-a-half long investigation led to the indictment of 21 people, primarily members of New York-based gang Trinitarios, for selling heroin and cocaine in several Washington Heights residential buildings, court documents show. A second group was charged with operating a delivery service of powdered cocaine, according to the documents. Read More »

A man accused of fatally shooting his 70-year-old father, a Manhattan hedge-fund founder, has been indicted on a new charge of criminal possession of forgery devices, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

The new indictment presented in court against 30-year-old Thomas Gilbert Jr. follows the discovery of a credit card skimmer, a device often used in financial fraud, and 21 blank credit cards during a police search of his Chelsea apartment after the Jan. 4 killing of his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr. Read More »

A man who repeatedly complained of being rejected by women and was wanted in connection with a string of attacks on Asian women in Manhattan this month apparently hung himself in the basement of a Madison Avenue building, New York City police said on Tuesday.

In a series of assaults between June 10 to 15, young Asian women were approached by the suspect, who smashed them in the face with a still unknown object inside a plastic bag, and then fled, police said. Read More »

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village was unanimously designated a city landmark by the Landmark Preservation Commission Tuesday.

Peter J. Smith for The Wall Street Journal

The site of the Stonewall Inn, a gay club and bar where 1969 riots played a significant part in the modern gay-rights movement, was designated a city landmark Tuesday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

All 27 speakers who testified at a two-hour hearing spoke in support of the designation. They included four men who said they were participants in the protests and confrontations that began in the early hours of June 29, 1969 with a police raid on the Stone Inn at 51-53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. Read More »

The New York region has a big appetite for small museums catering to obscure topics.

The latest addition to the area’s collection of small museums will be the “American Museum of Tort Law,” which was founded by longtime consumer advocate and previous presidential candidate Ralph Nader. The nonprofit attraction in northwestern Connecticut will focus on aspects of the legal system handling wrongful actions that result in injury, otherwise known as “torts.” Read More »

A New York Police Department sergeant opened fire on a man who lunged at him with a knife in Brooklyn early Friday morning, police said.

The incident began when a sergeant, a member of the anti-crime team who was wearing plainclothes and in an unmarked car, spotted two man stripping a Honda Fit of a pair of tires near the intersection of Glenwood Road and East 19th Street in Flatbush shortly after 4 a.m., police said. He approached the two men who then fled in a pair of vehicles, police said. Read More »

Two teenagers were killed in separate incidents in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening, police said.

Jamal Joseph, 18 years old, was with a group outside the Allegiance Sneaker store on Utica Avenue in the neighborhood of Crown Heights when an argument began with others outside the shop just before 7 p.m., authorities said. A brawl ensued and Mr. Joseph was stabbed in his neck, shoulder and torso by an unknown assailant, police said. Read More »